八年级英语阅读竞赛试题(总分100分)Passage 1 阅读短文，选择最佳答案（10分）The Spring Festival is the biggest festival for Chinese people all around the world. The celebration usually lasts for 15 days. There is a lot to do.On the eve of the Spring Festival, family members get together and have big meals. Their favourite dish on this day is dumplings.Days before the Spring Festival, families will clean their homes. People think cleaning sweeps away bad luck. It makes the house ready for good luck.The colour red is everywhere during the Spring Festival. People think red is a happy colour and will bring them a bright future. People wear red, too. They decorate (装饰) their homes with pieces of red paper. Kids get a lot of “hong bao”. It is a red paper bag with money in it. Usually, older people give younger ones hong bao. They think it brings good luck.The Spring Festival is the time to make everybody happy. So do n’t say any bad words or do anything that will bring unhappiness to other people.For instance, you’d better not say any bad words like “death”. Don’t break anything. People think that it means your luck is running out.Also, don’t borrow or lend money on these days. If you have borrowed money, return it before the Spring Festival.1. What do most people do on the eve of the Spring Festival?A. Family members gather for a big meal.B. Friends eat dumplings together.C. They borrow money from friends.D. They give each other hong bao.2. Why do people clean their houses days before the Spring Festival?A. Because they enjoy being clean.B. Because it is believed that cleaning will sweep away bad luck.C. Because they think it will bring happiness to others.D. Because it is thought that cleaning brings in money.3. Which of the following things is not supposed to happen during the Spring Festival?A. Returning money before the Spring Festival.B. Saying words that have to do with death.C. Wearing red clothes.D. Decorating houses with red paper.4. The underlined phrase “running out” probably means “____”.A. 跑出去B. 打碎C. 耗尽D. 离开5.We can tell from the story that the Spring Festival is ____.A. a time of harvest and funB. celebrated for one whole monthC. only celebrated in ChinaD. a time for families to get togetherPassage 2根据短文内容，回答问题（10分）Americans love sports—they love to play them, to watch them on television, and to talk about them. But this hobby sometimes has serious results—at least to the players. For example, when people play tennis, sometimes they hurt their elbow（肘部）and in this way they develop “tennis elbow”. Also it is easy to hurt a knee in a football game. These injuries（损伤）happen while the player is having fun, but they still hurt.A few months ago, Kathleen Simmons, who loves playing volleyball, hurt her knee in a volleyball game. Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation（手术）or she might not be able to play again. She felt very sad and di dn’t know what to do.Then Simmons learned about “video operation”. With the help of this new science in medicine, doctors can now repair many injuries and get people back on the playing field and back to their jobs much faster. Simmons found a hospital that was using this new science and went to see the doctor there. The doctors told her the operation could help.For this operation, her doctor didn’t have to open her knee. Instead he put a very small camera lens（镜头）inside her knee. The lens sent back pictures, which appeared on a television screen. As he worked, he could see the inside of her knee on the TV. With the help of the large pictures on the screen, the doctor knew exactly what to do when he was making the repairs.Simmons started walking five d ays after her operation. “My knee hurt a lot the first few days,” she said. “But I felt better very quickly.” Now, six months after her operation, Simmons can do everything she did before her injury. “It feels like a new knee,” she said. “I can even play volleyball again.”6. Do Americans love sports?_____________________________________________7. What sport is Simmons interested in?_____________________________________________8. What did the doctor put inside Simmons’ knee?_____________________________________________9. What problem may people have when they play sports?_____________________________________________10. What’s the advantage（优点）of the new science?_____________________________________________Passage 3 任务型阅读（10分）1)Now more and more________in the world are getting_________, which troubles them a lot. In the past 25 years, the number of the people with obesity (肥胖症) inEurope has doubled(增加一倍). Experts say that it has a lot to do with our eating habits. Our eating habits are very important for good health and a strong body. Most of us like eating sweets and ice cream better than meat and rice. Sweets and ice cream are not bad for us if we eat them at the end of a meal. If we eat them before a meal, they may take away our appetite (食欲).It’s important for us to have meals at the same time every day. When we feel worried or excited, we may not want to eat. A long time ago, in England, 2) some judges(法官) often decided whether a man was telling the truth by giving him some dry bread. If the man could not swallow (吞) the bread, it meant that he wasn't telling the truth. A man who is worrying something has difficulty in swallowing anything dry, because he loses his appetite.11.在1)句的空白处填入适当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺：________ ________12.When are Sweets and ice cream are not bad for us?_________________________________________________________13.将2)句译成中文：________________________________________14.在文中找出与下列句子意思相近的句子：Most people prefer sweets and ice cream to meat and rice.15.找出文中或写出最能表达该短文主题的句子______________________________________________________________________Passage 4 完形填空（20分）The SeaWhat do you know about the sea? Some people often see it,1the others don't. The sea looks2on a fine sunny day. Millions of people hope to take their3by the sea. They can swim in it, or lie on the beaches in the sun. They4themselves there. But it can be very rough when there is a strong wind. What other things do we know about it?Of course, the sea is very large. Looking at a5of the world, you can see it is much bigger than land. There are a lot of6in the sea. Some of them are big and the others are 7 .Did you swim in the sea? If you answer “Yes", you may know that the water is salty. Rivers carry8from the land to the sea. Some places of the sea are more salty than other places. Do you know the Dead Sea? Fish9live in it. And people can easily swim in it. Nobody is afraid to10in the water.Notes:（1）rough粗野的（2）island 岛屿16.A. and B. so C. but D. or17.A. useful B. beautiful C. terrible D. weak18.A. classes B. sports C. meetings D. holidays19.A. enjoy B. like C. stop D. begin20.A. book B. map C. newspaper D. picture21.A. roads B. shops C. houses D. islands22.A. small B. young C. little D. good23.A. sugar B. butter C. salt D. oil24.A. can B. must C. can't D. mustn't25.A. lift B. sink C. walk D. sleepPsaaage 5 根据首字母提示完成短文（20分）Four SeasonsThere're four seasons in a year. They're spring, summer, autumn and winter.Spring is the b(26) season in a year. It lasts from February to April. Thed(27) get longer, the nights get shorter and the weather gets warmer. Everything begins to g (28). Grass and trees begin to turn green. Flowers begin to come out. Children begin to f (29) kites outdoors.Summer comes after spring. It is the h(30) season in a year. It lasts from May to July. People try to find a cool place then. They always go s(31) in pools, lakes and rivers.Autumn is the harvest season. It gets cool. F(32) begin to get in rice and corn. They are busy from August to October. They are so happy to have a good harvest. The coldest season of the year is winter. It's from about November to January. The days are short and the nights are long. It s(33) sometimes and that makes children happy. They m(34) a snowman and dance round it. They go skating as well. They need to wear w (35) clothes of course.Thomas Edison was a great American 36.________ . When he was a child, he was always 37.________ questions and trying out new ideas. No matter 38.________ hard it was, he never gave up.Young Tom was in school for only three months. His teacher didn’t understand why he had 39.________ many strange questions. Most of them were not about his lessons. The teache r didn’t want to teach Tom any 40.________ . He asked Tom’s mother to take the boy home. Tom’s mother taught him to read and write, and she found him 41.________ a very good pupil. He learnt very fast and became very 42.________ in science.One day , he saw a little boy 43.________ on the railway tracks at a station. A train was coming near quiclly, and the boy was too frightened to move. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to 44 .________. The boy’s father was so 45.________ that he taught Edison to send messages by telegraph.。